Sentences with phrase «of cooperating witnesses»

Sampson told his associate about his source and added that if they could determine the identities of cooperating witnesses in the associate's case, they could «take them out.»

Sampson feared that the associate might cooperate with the government and disclose Sampson's embezzlement, so Sampson contacted a close personal friend, who was also a supervisory paralegal in this office, and asked him to find out if Sampson was under investigation and to obtain confidential information about the associate's case, including the identities of cooperating witnesses.

Doug Burns, a former Eastern District prosecutor from Nassau County, said the «cardinal rule» in the government's use of a cooperating witness is «whether or not what they say can be backed up or corroborated by other evidence in the case.»

Not exact matches

Matanov told an unidentified witness cooperating with the government that «the bombings could have had a just reason, such as being done in the name of Islam, that he would support the bombings if the reason were just or the attack had been done by the Taliban,» according to the papers.

However, Mariotti added, prosecutors sometimes bring charges earlier if it's part of an effort to coerce a defendant into «flipping» as a witness and cooperating with the investigation.

This is where the aiding and abetting charge comes in — the cooperating witness allegedly used a Phantom device while organizing the transit of five kilograms of cocaine.

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

This reminds us that the church must be ready to witness to the lordship of Christ by cooperating with people of goodwill of all religious and non-religious groups who are genuinely concerned to seek better ways of living and working.

In general, churches choose to associate with the SBC (or any of the other Baptist bodies) because it allows them to cooperate with other autonomous congregations to accomplish shared goals: mission efforts, public witness, theological education, etc..

The church must be ready to witness to the lordship of Christ by cooperating with men of goodwill who are genuinely concerned to seek better ways of living and working — no matter what their political, social, or philosophical convictions.

We participate and cooperate with God seeking and saving the lost by the credibility that comes from a witness of love.

Rashan Michel, a founder of a clothing company based in Atlanta and former NBA and college referee introduced Person to «CW - 1» (a cooperating witness), who had a financial advisory / business management service.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

A former LPCiminelli executive has accepted a plea deal with the United States Attorney Southern District of New York and will serve as a cooperating witness in a trial this June connected to alleged bid - rigging for state - led development projects.

Reichberg and associate Jona Rechnitz, who has been identified as a cooperating government witness in both cases, have also been linked to federal probes of Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising.

A cooperating witness in the case who had already pleaded guilty is lobbyist Todd Howe, who admitted orchestrating the bid - rigging of «Buffalo Billion» development initiatives in exchange for kickbacks.

A news publication, Voize Iz Neias, also known as The Voice of the Orthodox Jewish Community named Monsey Chosid as the cooperating witness in the statewide political scandal.

In her jury instructions, the judge noted Howe's participation in the case as a cooperating witness, noting that convictions in this case can be made «on the basis of such a witness's testimony.»

Earlier Wednesday, Adam Skelos» former AbTech supervisor, Bjornulf White, finished more than two full days of testimony that included introduction of more than two dozen potentially incriminating recorded conversations he made as a cooperating government witness.

Rockland County, NY - A chasidic Jew from Rockland County has been identified as the cooperating witness who helped the FBI uncover a massive plot to rig the 2013 New York City mayoral race and led to the arrest of six politicians who allegedly accepted bribes.

Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas said that she would support deporting immigrants convicted of gang violence, but warned that law enforcement officials must be «careful» not to scare off possible victims or witnesses from cooperating with authorities for fear of deportation.

In addition to more than 11 million pages of records, the feds» arsenal includes former lobbyist - turned - cooperating witness Todd Howe and emails in which he and Percoco allegedly referred to payoffs as «ziti» — a code word for cash that prosecutors say they lifted from an episode of HBO's mob drama «The Sopranos.»

Todd Howe, a lobbyist accused of accepting the bribes, has already pleaded guilty and is a cooperating witness for the government.

The senator, who represents Queens Village, St. Albans and Jamaica, is accused of conspiring in November 2012 with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer to bribe city Republican leaders in order to win Wilson - Pakula certificates.

In exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planning.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge on June 15.

Later, Stevenson met with the cooperating witness on Jan. 27, 2013, and said he was worried one of his accomplices, Tsimerman, might be working with cops and that his calls were being recorded.

While Jimmy Meng professed his innocence outside court - and his lawyer declined comment - the feds say they have substantial evidence from the cooperating witness» recordings of phone calls and conversations with Meng dating back to last December.

Sources and records show Rechnitz became a cooperating witness for the feds after he was snared in yet another bribery case involving Norman Seabrook, the head of the city Correction Officers union, who allegedly received $ 65,000 in bribes in exchange for funneling $ 20 million in union funds into a hedge fund operated by a friend of Rechnitz's, according to sources and court documents.

The government has accused Percoco, 49, of South Salem, of taking $ 35,000 in bribes from two principals of COR through lobbyist Todd Howe, a cooperating witness.

NEW YORK CITY — Moses «Mark» Stern, the cooperating witness who played a pivotal role in the arrests of state Sen. Malcolm Smith and five others, is a well - connected upstate powerbroker who kept dirt on politicians for a «rainy day» and had ties to many elected officials, including state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, sources said.

She also invoked common arguments that immigrants boost the local economy, and that sanctuary city statutes encourage undocumented victims and witnesses of crime to approach and cooperate with law enforcement.

The criminal complaint charging Seabrook and his fellow defendant, hedge - fund manager Murray Huberfeld, strongly suggests that a witness who is cooperating with the government in the case, Jona S. Rechnitz, could also serve as an important witness in at least one of the fund - raising inquiries centered on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Sampson asked a mole in the US Attorney's office for the names of witnesses cooperating to make a case against him so he could «take them out.»

Based on news reports and descriptions in the complaint, one of those fundraisers, Jona Rechnitz, appears to be a cooperating witness in the case against Seabrook.

Glenwood has not been accused of any wrong doing, but its senior executive has become a cooperating witness in the Skelos case.

Glenwood has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but its senior executive has become a cooperating witness in the Skelos case.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

Smith's attorney says the senator was a victim of a government sting operation by a «cooperating witness,» Moses Stern, a Rockland County businessman who has boasted of sway in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and was seeking leniency for federal charges he was facing for allegedly defrauding Citigroup of $ 126 million.

No developer has been charged with any wrong doing, but the chief executive of one firm, Glenwood management is a cooperating witness in the cases.

Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas said Sunday that she would support deporting immigrants convicted of gang violence, but warned that law enforcement officials must be «careful» not to scare off possible victims or witnesses from cooperating with authorities for fear of deportation.

At one point, he was recorded saying that if he was able to find out the identities of several cooperating government witnesses, he could arrange to «take them out.»

He referred to — and praised — the role of «Assemblyman 1,» who it quickly became known was Castro, and «CW,» or cooperating witness, who was Sigfredo Gonzalez, according to reports.

The complaint is peppered with embarrassing details of how Reichberg and the cooperating witness allegedly bribed the two cops — and how the officers demanded more.

Reichberg and the cooperating witness spent «well over $ 100,000» in gifts that served as bribes, Bharara said, so that they could hold sway with police — which they used to get friends and themselves out of traffic tickets, to arrange for police presence at religious sites and events, to get good seats at parades and other events, to get lights - and - sirens escorts to the airport, and even to close down a lane of the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could breeze through without traffic.

Mr. Howe, who has pleaded guilty to eight felonies and is cooperating with prosecutors in the case against Joseph Percoco, who served as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's executive deputy secretary, was taken into custody on Thursday after admitting on the witness stand that he violated the terms of his cooperation agreement.

Howe, 57, a cooperating witness on his first day on the stand in Manhattan federal court, laid out how he came to be the linchpin of an alleged scheme by two clients to pay more than $ 300,000 in bribes to Percoco — referred to by them in code as «zitti» — to buy influence for an energy company and a Syracuse developer.

During a six - month stretch in which a top executive has reportedly become a cooperating witness for a federal investigation of a top Albany politician, the real estate developer donated only about 6 percent of the money it gave to political committees during comparable cycles in recent years.

Shargel first sought to impugn the reputation of Moses «Mark» Stern, a cooperating witness in the government's investigation.